Even after they have paired with a male, the female North American barn swallow still comparison-shops for sexual partners. And forget personality, the females judge males by their looks: the reddish ...

The barn swallow is bird of the week. It's hard to name any other bird in the last week of August. Barn swallows are abundant in country places. They've finished nesting. The last young-of-the-year at ...

If you’ve seen a petite bird with cobalt blue feathers, a rusty orange throat, tawny breast and a long, deeply-forked tail lately, it was likely a barn swallow. Barn swallows have returned to Humboldt ...

When we first started making plans for filming in the Lake District, it was deep mid-winter, and all we had to go by for how ...

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Even after they have paired with a male, the female North American barn swallow still comparison-shops for sexual partners. And forget personality; the females judge males by their ...